HostGator to become a Certificate Authority?

[tobiaslw]

From the "one and only" (gag) Wikipedia, a CA is defined as:

a certificate authority or certification authority (CA) is an entity which issues digital certificates for use by other parties.

I do believe that HostGator uses another CA for SSL certificates, (verisign for an example) And I was wandering if they had any motives to become their own CA, like another web host (starts to shudder) "GoDaddy"

Just an idea,

Tobias

[codesight]

GoDaddy was initially a CA and domain name registrar. They went into web hosting as a secondary business service so it's really not the same situation as HG is in.

[tobiaslw]

Fair enough.